Review on “How the Earth made Man”
In this documentary many scientist specializing at different fields come together to explain the different clues that are within us; “clues”, they say that speaks of the Earth’s history and how it changed the genetic make-up of humans and how humans recognizes its “past” forms and history through little proofs in our psychological responses and physical reactions.
I am well aware that all of which that are stated were theories, and though these are but a theory it seemed to me that they talk as if it was the actual truth, the way the documentary put it; everything was just a product of luck and that the game could change anytime and that all that we are is a complex system with the only core agenda being survival and nothing but that alone, for me it’s like saying that love is just an illusion influenced by our choice and ideals in selecting mate and protecting offspring for the sake of survival; for me it was like saying that our parents didn’t really loved us, but were just under the illusion of it and that they were just trying to protect us for the sake of the continuation of the genes stored in us, that’s what I think these thoughts were suggesting. But if all of this are true, I don’t know how on earth and where morality comes in, and if really human behavior was because its ancestor lived on the wrong side of the river and copied that gene that codes for competition instead of sharing, then scientifically we can rationalized whenever people covet or rob from one another. I think all of these ideas though treated as facts could be misleading in the long-run; because it meant that people could pass laws and wrong doings could be labeled as the instinct to survived.
The documentary is an obvious denial of everything beyond sight, for all people know is “to see is to believe”, funnily enough, no one was there to see the world age up to this present time, yet people became so sure that we are nothing but lucky modifications that escape many times of close extinction. Well that luck must have been huge enough to allow us to exist and build the modern civilization with minds powerful enough to observed and visit neighboring celestial bodies such us the Mars and the moon.
Though I am amazed by the presentation with its the ideas, and evidences that they are trying to correlate; I still think that you can make cornstarch into a thickening agent or into a body powder whichever you prefer or needed, what I meant is that we can utilize different evidences into proving what we want to prove. These ingredients (or proofs) of evolution could also be proofs of revealing that there is an Author that had fabricated within us His signature, and that could be why we are the same yet were different from other organisms.
I agree that environment plays a vital role, and could really influence us, but in no way could it make us.